Temple compound

⁵ Now there was an outer wall that went all the way around the temple compound. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was ten and a half feet^[a] (based on a standard eighteen inches^[b] plus three inches^[c]). When he measured the wall’s height and width it was ten and a half feet high and ten and a half feet wide. ⁶ He entered the gate facing east. He went up its steps, and he measured the plaza^[d] at the gate. It was ten and a half feet wide: the plaza was ten and a half feet wide. ⁷ The rooms were ten and a half feet long and ten and a half feet wide, with a space of seven and a half feet between them. The plaza next to the porch at the gate opposite the temple was ten and a half feet.